''Heterosmilax'' was considered a

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s in the

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Smilacaceae Smilacaceae, the greenbriers, is a family of flowering plants. While they were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, most recent botanists have accepted the two as distinct families, diverging around 55 million years ago dur ...

. It was native to southern

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and

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Smilax ''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family (biology), family Smilacaceae, native through ...

'' and was reduced to a

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within that genus. ; Species * '' Heterosmilax borneensis'' A.DC. - Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra * '' Heterosmilax chinensis'' F.T.Wang - Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan * '' Heterosmilax gaudichaudiana'' (Kunth) Maxim - Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan * '' Heterosmilax longiflora'' K.Y.Guan & Noltie - Yunnan * '' Heterosmilax micrandra'' T.Koyama - Hainan * '' Heterosmilax micrantha'' (Blume) Bakh.f. - Java * '' Heterosmilax paniculata'' Gagnep. - Cambodia, Vietnam * '' Heterosmilax pertenuis'' (T.Koyama) T.Koyama - Thailand * '' Heterosmilax polyandra'' Gagnep. - Yunnan, Assam, Laos, Thailand * '' Heterosmilax seisuiensis'' (Hayata) F.T.Wang & Tang - Taiwan * '' Heterosmilax septemnervia'' F.T.Wang & Tang - Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan * '' Heterosmilax yunnanensis'' Gagnep. - Yunnan

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